No. They are still cars. Also, I live in a climate where self driving cars won’t probably work.for like 2 or 3 months of the year.

I’d love to see a self driving car on a normal snow day with the sun glaring in its camera while stuck in a snow bank that the plow left behind. Sometimes there’s a layer of snow on the road, covering the markings, so that nearly two tons self driving machine will get confused and end up stuck everywhere.

Plus even if they dont physically crush people, car tires still emit microplastics that are bad for our health and environment.

https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-50-of-microplastic-pollution-comes-from-cars-heres-why

Parking lots and cars themselves are also contributing to heat island effects and heat up our surroundings.

Cars are a blight on humanity. Fuck cars.

EDIT: Really, we are far from self driving cars anyway. Tesla is faking the footage they show to the public. Waymo has to be remote controlled in some cases. They get stuck everywhere and block emergency services. None of this over enthusiastic tech bro bullshit is even close to being fully functional. Yes, some can drive themselves in controlled environments, but some also get confused easily and end up in bike lanes.

Yes. “Cars are still much more dangerous than any of those modes of transport.”

On average, one person is killed every 26 seconds by a car. That’s 1.35 million people worldwide yearly.

He likes high gas prices. His friends are making tons of money, and some of it goes back to him. He could say anything and his supporters would cheer. He says so himself. And they cheer. There’s not just one clown.

But how is the DOW?!

I don’t remember the sequence. I presume this was after having pushed the emergency stop button?

Sure. And soon after electing the Democrats again, they’ll bring universal health care to the US. Sure.

EDIT: They’ll even close Guantánamo Bay.

Cars are for people with money. Poor people are taking the bus. Nobody should be taking public transit unless they’re poor, or have a DUI or something. If you’re sitting in a bus, you’re obviously a loser.

Just like the Dems have investigated January 6th? I’m sure the consequences will be devastating for him.

What do you mean? They never invaded any country under false pretense that resulted in a few hundred thousand civilian deaths as “casualties” (or collateral damage).

Obama even closed Guantanamo! Or bombed a wedding.

Post natal abortion in a state where it’s illegal.

EDIT: I want to be clear. This is tragic in all sorts of ways. My comment could look like a joke but it’s just the sad reality.

When I started working for a MSP 15 years ago, the world of corporations introduced me to AS/400 (or iSeries, or IBM i). It’s not that obscure as big corporations are still using it, but I never heard of it before starting working for big businesses.

I made that choice two decades ago and I’m really glad to be car free. I moved away from a town without public transit and got jobs closer th where I live, or where I wouldn’t need a car. Even today I’m passing lots of job opportunities in my field because they want me to drive a car from one site to another, and I insist on taking public transit, or a bike. I’ve even been told I’m not a real adult as long as I don’t drive a car.

I’m telling the people around me that if they are to have a car, it should at least be electric, but both my mother and my sister bought a new car last year, and they’re gas powered, because they “don’t trust electric cars1!!1!”. Well, pay and whine. Be real adults and pay for your fucking expensive gas.

Millions of people could try to get rid of their bad habits, free themselves from their addiction to cars, drive less, switch to electric, find alternatives. But no. The only solution is cheap gas. Everyone just needs cheap gas. The US and the west can interfere in other countries’ elections, invade them, kidnap foreign leaders, hang them, kill a few hundred thousand civilians as “collateral damage”, as long as we have cheap gas, all is well in the world. There’s simply no other solution!

I thought about Ethernet but apparently the run is too long, even with repeaters. It will probably not have enough power. It’s also a few hundred dollars for 400 meters of direct burial Ethernet cable, without counting the injectors and repeaters.

And most importantly, I wonder how the equipment would fare during winter when the ground is frozen solid for several months.

But maybe my fear of a few -25°C days is not justified, as I already left a Raspberry Pi in a barn with those temperatures, and it did fine. I’d have to check the temperature operating range for the equipment I use.

That’s why in the end, if I have to use a cable, I was leaning towards direct burial fibre, as it can easily cover that distance without messing with PoE on long runs, would “only” cost a few hundred dollars more, and avoid the need to try to protect the repeaters/switches.

I’m still curious though, so I guess I could just try it for fun with a cheap Ethernet cable run for a summer, then see if it’s really worth investing a bit more for the future.

It depends on the conditions Cables are always the winner, but I have an off grid cabin that has very poor cell reception. I usually end up getting less than 2 Mbps.

But my parents live about 400 meters away and have FTTH, in the countryside, because of a local cooperative.

I looked for using a fibre but it would cost several hundred dollars to have one that resists outdoor conditions in Quebec for a few years. So I settled for Wi-Fi. I get 10 Mbps with the two repeaters and very basic antenna alignment, which is better than 2.

I’d really like to use a cable but I’m only there a few weeks a year, so this works ok.

It’s slang. In Canada ‘gosses’ (pronounced goss singular or plural) means testicles. In France, it means ‘kid/child’. There’s lots of jokes about that when a French visitor says they brought their ‘gosses’ with them.

Sounds funny in French Canadian though. Testes Link.

Reminds me of the E-tron, which means turd in French.

I’m usually very anti weapons but I don’t mind us (Canada) developing nuclear weapons as a deterrent. AFAIK we’re not missing much to get there.

And as for the treaties, our neighbours with which we have multiple agreements and treaties doesn’t respect them. They’re threatening of annexation. For the Unitedstaters, treaties are only ink on a page.

I’d prefer mutual destruction to becoming an American.

It’s so sad and depressing that the only thing that moves the needle and makes the average Unitedstater react is the price of gas.

Obviously they’re not invading other countries and killing innocent people for nothing. Who cares about other people, kidnappings in the streets, turning against your allies, as long as they can get cheap gas, there’s no problem.

Maybe the US is due to invade another country with oil, to keep its population happy.

I’m sure she learned her lesson.

This is me trying to find a nice place to watch the fireworks in Montreal then realize 10 minutes before it starts that I’ll have to go through that crowd when it’s over, so I just turn around and go back home pre-emptively.